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Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire at Peleliu, Palau.
Damien Peter Parer (1912-1944), war photographer and cameraman, was born on 1 August 1912 at Malvern, Melbourne, youngest of eight children of John Arthur Parer, an hotelkeeper from Spain, and his Victorian-born wife Teresa, née Carolin.
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Damien Parer and George Silk, photographers with the Department of Information at Tobruk Harbour, preparing to capture the next air raid. During the Greek (April) and Syrian (June-July) campaigns, as well as the Tobruk siege (April-December), Parer primarily took motion pictures with a few stills.
Damien Parer. 1912 - 1944 | VIC | Cameraman, photographer. Parer was one of Australia’s best-known combat cameramen. As official movie photographer for the AIF, he decided early to film from as close to the action as possible.
Max Dupain OBE. gelatin silver photograph on paper (sheet: 43.5 cm x 33.0 cm, image: 42.7 cm x 32.3 cm) Damien Parer (1912–1944), photographer and filmmaker, became friends with Max Dupain in the 1930s, often taking photographs with him on excursions to the beach and bush.
Damien Parer the ace Australian news reel cameraman was killed by Japanese machinegun fire while filming an American combat advance at Peleliu, in the Palau group of islands north of New Guinea on 17 September 1944. He was 33. His wife survived him, with their son born the following year.
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His early assignments involved filming further air raids over New Guinea. On 23 March 1944 during a period of leave, Parer, a deeply religious man, married Marie Cotter in Sydney. Their union was a brief one. Parer returned to action, leaving the war in New Guinea behind to accompany the United States Marines.
